Five, Four, Three, Two | Film Screening

The film cites the philosophy-mythology of Sisyphus, generalizing the myth across the unrelated daily lives of three people who are eventually connected in a peaceful cycle without beginning or ending, joy or sorrow. They share the same memory of counting down numbers repeatedly and collectively engaging in the karma of passing a boulder. The work speaks how people might eventually realize, and peacefully accept someday, the fact that life is but a journey of futility. It serves as a response to the originally positive question of existence. Through camera movement, streams of consciousness from the past life and the afterlife become interconnected and form an endless loop under the effect of the mise-en-scène, visualizing the metaphysics of permanence and emptiness.

A film by WU Chia Yun
Presented by Up Gallery
Duration 13 minutes and 10 seconds
2023